“Apologia” by Christopher Columbus
“America” by Arthur Cleveland Coxe
“Flawless His Heart” by James Russell Lowell
The Mayflower Compact by William Bradford
“A Model of Charity” by John Winthrop
“The First Proclamation” by Margaret Preston
“Thanksgiving in Boston” by Hezekiah Butterworth
“Epitaph of a Patriot” by Anne Bradstreet
“Essays to Do Good” by Cotton Mather
“Sir Humphrey Gilbert” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Pocahontas” by William Makepeace Thackeray
“Five Kernels of Corn” by Hezekiah Butterworth
“Ned Braddock” by John Williamson Palmer
Part II: An Experiment in Liberty
“A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party” by Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The Divine Source of Liberty” by Samuel Adams
“Liberty or Death” by Patrick Henry
“Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Liberty Tree” by Thomas Paine
“Lexington” by John Greenleaf Whittier
The Declaration of Independence
“Nathan Hale” by Francis Miles Finch
“Valley Forge” by Thomas Buchanan Read
“Free America” by Joseph Warren
End Slavery’s Lamentable Evil by Patrick Henry
“The Vow of Washington” by John Greenleaf Whittier
In Favor of the Federal Constitution by James Madison
The Federalist: Number 30 by Alexander Hamilton
The Federalist: Number 47 by James Madison
Inaugural Address by George Washington
Farewell Address by George Washington
The Bunker Hill Monument Oration by Daniel Webster
“Farewell Peace” by Joseph Hopkinson
“First Fruits in 1812” by Wallace Rice
“The Star-Spangled Banner” by Francis Scott Key
The Missouri Compromise by Henry Clay
The Monroe Doctrine by James Monroe and John Quincy Adams
“The Defense of the Alamo” by Joaquin Miller
“Liberty for All” by William Lloyd Garrison
Dred Scott v. Sandford by Roger B. Taney
A House Divided by Abraham Lincoln
Inaugural Address by Jefferson Davis
“The Battle Hymn of the Republic” by Julia Ward Howe
“The Volunteer” by Elbridge Jefferson Cutler
“Stonewall Jackson’s Way” by John Williamson Palmer
“Stonewall’s Dying Words” by Sidney Lanier
“Dreaming in the Trenches” by William Gordon McCabe
“Christmas Night of ’62” by William Gordon McCabe
“John Burns of Gettysburg” by Bret Harte
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
“Music in Camp” by John Reuben Thompson
The Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln
“O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman
“Ode to the Confederate Dead” by Alan Tate
“My Country ’Tis of Thee” by Samuel Smith
Amendments to the Constitution
Seneca Falls Declaration by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Pledge of Allegiance by Francis Bellamy
Atlanta Exposition Address by Booker T. Washington
Cross of Gold by William Jennings Bryan
“Cuba to Columbia” by Will Carleton
“The Men of the Maine” by Clinton Scollard
“Battle Song” by Robert Burns Wilson
“Dewey in Manila Bay” by R. V. Risley
“The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus
“The Man with the Muck-Rake” by Theodore Roosevelt
“The American Language” by H. L. Mencken
Have Faith in Massachusetts by Calvin Coolidge
“The New Crusade” by Katherine Lee Bates
“Marching Song” by Dana Burnet
“The First Three” by Clinton Scollard
“Victory Bells” by Grace Conkling
Fourteen Points by Woodrow Wilson
“League of Nations” by Mary Siegrist
League of Nations Speech by Henry Cabot Lodge
Pearl Harbor Address by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka by Earl Warren
Inaugural Address by John F. Kennedy
Letter from the Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.
Roe v. Wade by Harry A. Blackmun
Inaugural Address by Ronald Reagan
Amendments to the Constitution